Word: kamchatka
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...Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...Surrender of Japanese fishing rights off Kamchatka...
...only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands, only 696 miles east of Japan's advance base on Paramosmiri Island, off the toe of Kamchatka. An airplane from any of these Asiatic strongholds can cross the international date line and be over U. S. territory in 20 to 24 hours before it takes...
There is a further threat since Russian naval and air establishments have been built on the Kamchatka Peninsula (which wanders off the western edge of the map), since the Russians are reported to have constructed bases at East Cape, Anadyrsk, and other nearby points on the Asiatic mainland...
...increase the Army's knowledge of cold-weather living and maneuvering. Then the U. S. found out that the U. S. S. R. was extending its bases north along the Siberian coast, and that Japan had built a naval base at Paramosmiri Island, just south of Kamchatka. These bases threaten each other. They also threaten Alaska...